"The Mission (theme music) ""The Mission"" is a television news music package composed by John Williams in 1985. Originally commissioned for NBC's national news programs, the theme has also been used on some NBC affiliates for their local newscasts. The package consists of the following four parts: The main theme was updated on March 26, 2007, in preparation of Brian Williams succeeding Tom Brokaw as the anchor on ""Nightly News"". Australia's Seven Network adopted the original theme for its news bulletins in the late 1980s. Seven has since updated its version of the theme thrice - independently from NBC. Australia's"
"John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the ""Star Wars"" series, ""Jaws"", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Superman"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the first two ""Home Alone"" films, ""Hook"", the first two ""Jurassic Park"" films, ""Schindler's List"", and the first three ""Harry Potter"" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three"
"Jaws (film) Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. In it, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw). Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script"
"4 in F Minor"" by a massed tuba choir of 99 tubists. Tommy Johnson (tubist) John Thomas Johnson (January 7, 1935 - October 16, 2006) was an American orchestral tuba player. He performed on more than 2,000 film soundtracks, most notably John Williams' ""Jaws"" score, in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark. He was born in Los Angeles, California to tailor Thomas Johnson and his wife Alma, the youngest of five siblings. Johnson had a musical upbringing as his father was a baritone soloist in the choir at the Angelus Temple in"
"""Jaws"", were also composed by Williams, who remains the only person to have won all awards for the same score more than once.) To date, a total of only six scores have won all four awards. Many observers have noted that the ""E.T."" theme music sounds extremely similar to a passage near the end of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's Dumky trio, leading some to accuse Williams of ""stealing"" the music. However, others have pointed out that it is not an uncommon practice for contemporary composers to borrow from classical music. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (soundtrack) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Music from the"
"John Barry (composer) John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. He composed the scores for 11 of the ""James Bond"" films between 1963 and 1987, and also arranged and performed the ""James Bond Theme"" to the first film in the series, 1962's ""Dr. No"". He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films ""Dances with Wolves"" and ""Out of Africa"", as well as the theme for the British television cult series ""The Persuaders!"", in a career spanning over 50 years. In 1999, he was appointed OBE"
"asked by Johnson why the melody was written in such a high register and not played by the more appropriate French horn, Williams responded that he wanted it to sound ""a little more threatening"". When Williams first demonstrated his idea to Spielberg, playing just the two notes on a piano, Spielberg was said to have laughed, thinking that it was a joke. As Williams saw similarities between ""Jaws"" and pirate movies, at other points in the score he evoked ""pirate music"", which he called ""primal, but fun and entertaining"".The primal opening notes are developed from the opening foreboding tone of"
"of a piano. Williams' theme won an Academy Award. The film won other Academy Awards, and was nominated for Best Picture. The success of ""Jaws"" led to three sequels, and the four films together have earned nearly $800 million worldwide in box office gross. The franchise has also seen the release of various soundtrack albums, additional novelizations based on the sequels, trading cards, inspired theme park rides at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Japan, multiple video games, and a musical that premiered in 2004. Although the first film was popular with critics when it was originally released, ""Jaws 2"""
"such a high register and not played by the more appropriate French horn, Williams responded that he wanted it to sound ""a little more threatening"". When Williams first demonstrated his idea to Spielberg, playing just the two notes on a piano, Spielberg was said to have laughed, thinking that it was a joke. As Williams saw similarities between ""Jaws"" and pirate movies, at other points in the score he evoked ""pirate music"", which he called ""primal, but fun and entertaining"". Calling for rapid, percussive string playing, the score contains echoes of ""La mer"" by Claude Debussy as well of Igor"
"on the movie. Jaws (film) Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. In it, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw). Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who"
"a freelance musician. He subsequently performed with the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini and played in numerous television and radio shows. He recorded with Gregor Piatagorsky, Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein, the Bach Aria Group, the Casals Festival Orchestra, the Columbia Symphony, and on every commercial recording made in NY. He also recorded with Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, and numerous others. Mensch can also be heard on many soundtracks from the 1940s until the 1970s. For example, the theme from the 1975 film Jaws is played by Homer Mensch. At the request of the New York Philharmonic's then-conductor, Leonard"
"Richard Kiel Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was a tall American actor and voice artist, best known for his role as Jaws in the ""James Bond"" franchise, portraying the character in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) and ""Moonraker"" (1979); he lampooned the role with a tongue-in-cheek cameo in ""Inspector Gadget"" (1999). His next-most recognized role is the tough, but eloquent Mr. Larson in ""Happy Gilmore"" (1996). Other notable films include ""The Longest Yard"" (1974), ""Silver Streak"" (1976), ""Force 10 from Navarone"" (1978), ""Pale Rider"" (1985) and ""Tangled"" (2010). Kiel was born in Detroit, Michigan."
"1974, director Steven Spielberg approached Williams to compose the music for his feature directorial debut, ""The Sugarland Express"". They teamed up again a year later for Spielberg's second film, ""Jaws"". Widely considered to be a classic suspense film, its film score's ominous, two-note ostinato has become synonymous with sharks and approaching danger. The score earned Williams his second Academy Award, his first for an original composition. Shortly thereafter, Spielberg and Williams began a long collaboration for their next feature film together, ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"". During their two-year-long collaboration, they crafted its distinctive five-note figure that functions both"
"Tommy Johnson (tubist) John Thomas Johnson (January 7, 1935 - October 16, 2006) was an American orchestral tuba player. He performed on more than 2,000 film soundtracks, most notably John Williams' ""Jaws"" score, in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark. He was born in Los Angeles, California to tailor Thomas Johnson and his wife Alma, the youngest of five siblings. Johnson had a musical upbringing as his father was a baritone soloist in the choir at the Angelus Temple in Echo Park. He attended the University of Southern California Thornton School of"
"Festival. ""De la Terre à la Lune"" - the synchronized on-board audio theme used for the original version of Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris, named from 1995 - 2005. Steven Bramson Steven Bramson is a professional composer who has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, and has won one Daytime Emmy Award and three ASCAP Awards. He has written music to George Lucas' ""Young Indiana Jones"" and the CBS series ""JAG"". Bramson’s music has been played in New York City, London and Vienna. He is currently writing a musical titled ""Shimmy"". The lyrics are being credited to Pamela Phillips"
"Jaws (franchise) Jaws is an American natural horror film series that started with a 1975 film that expanded into three sequels, a theme park ride, and other tie-in merchandise, based on a 1974 novel. The main subject of the saga is a great white shark, and its attacks on people in specific areas of the United States. The Brody family is featured in all of the films as the primary antithesis to the shark. The original film was based on a novel written by Peter Benchley, which itself was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Benchley adapted"
"Mr. Jaws ""Mr. Jaws"" is a novelty song by Dickie Goodman released on Cash Records in 1975. This record is a parody of the 1975 summer blockbuster film ""Jaws"", with Goodman interviewing the shark (whom he calls ""Mr. Jaws""), as well as the film's main characters, Brody, Hooper, and Quint. Goodman makes full use of his practice of ""break-in"" music sampling, in which all of the interview answers are lyrics from popular songs from that year. The single peaked at #4 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in October 1975. On the ""Cash Box"" Top 100 it fared even better, reaching"
"become more effective. Since Mrs. Voorhees, the killer in the original ""Friday the 13th"", does not show up until the final reel of the film, Manfredini had the job of creating a score that would represent the killer in her absence. Manfredini was inspired by the 1975 film ""Jaws"", where the shark is not seen for the majority of the film, but the motif created by John Williams cued the audience as to when the shark was present during scenes and unseen. While listening to a piece of Krzysztof Penderecki music, which contained a chorus with ""striking pronunciations"", Manfredini was"
"decided to cut the scene entirely. The sequence was later re-instated in the 1997 Special Edition with a computer-generated version of Jabba. On the recommendation of his friend Steven Spielberg, Lucas hired composer John Williams. Williams had worked with Spielberg on the film ""Jaws"", for which he won an Academy Award. Lucas believed that the film would portray visually foreign worlds, but that the musical score would give the audience an emotional familiarity; he wanted a grand musical sound for ""Star Wars"", with leitmotifs to provide distinction. Therefore, he assembled his favorite orchestral pieces for the soundtrack, until Williams convinced"
"Jaws (soundtrack) The original soundtrack for ""Jaws"" was released on LP by MCA in 1975, and as a CD in 1992, including roughly a half-hour of music that John Williams redid for the album. In 2000, two versions of the score were released: one in a re-recording of the entire ""Jaws"" score by Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely, and another to coincide with the release of the 25th anniversary DVD by Decca/Universal, featuring the entire 51 minutes of the original score. In 2005, it was ranked No.6 in AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, a list which"
"Edward H. Plumb Edward Holcomb Plumb (June 6, 1907, Streator, Illinois – April 18, 1958, Los Angeles, California) (also credited as Edward Plumb and Ed Plumb) was a film composer best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios. He served as musical director of ""Fantasia"" and composed the score for ""Bambi"", included its menacing man-theme, which may have been an influence for the shark-theme in ""Jaws"". Ed Plumb was born in Streator, Illinois. His grandfather, Colonel Ralph Plumb founded the city of Streator in 1866. In the 1930s, Plumb moved to California and began work as a composer and"
"taken advantage of in the way the audience is conditioned to associate the shark with its theme, which is exploited toward the film's climax when the shark suddenly appears with no musical introduction. Spielberg later said that without Williams's score the film would have been only half as successful, and according to Williams it jumpstarted his career. He had previously scored Spielberg's debut feature, ""The Sugarland Express"", and went on to collaborate with the director on almost all of his films. The original soundtrack for ""Jaws"" was released by MCA Records on LP in 1975, and as a CD in"
"Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw sing together aboard Quint's boat the ""Orca"" in ""Jaws"". Eli Roth, Ashlynn Brooke, Bonnie Morgan, Genevieve Alexandra and Gianna Michaels appear as spring breakers who meet gruesome demises, while Franck Khalfoun and Jason Spisak portray deputies. Chuck Russell was originally scheduled to direct the film, and made uncredited rewrites to the script by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, as well as incorporating the original John Sayles script that Joe Dante directed the first time around. Alexandre Aja was selected to direct the film instead. Production on the film was scheduled to begin late"
"James Newton Howard James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and eight Academy Award nominations. His film scores include ""Pretty Woman"" (1990), ""Grand Canyon"" (1991), ""The Fugitive"" (1993), ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1997), ""Dinosaur"" (2000), """" (2001), ""Treasure Planet"" (2002), ""King Kong"" (2005), ""Batman Begins"" (2005), ""Blood Diamond"" (2006), ""The Dark Knight"" (2008), ""The Bourne Legacy"" (2012), ""The Hunger Games"" series (2012–2015) and ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" (2016). He has collaborated with directors M."
"1992, including roughly a half hour of music that Williams redid for the album. In 2000, two versions of the score were released: Decca/Universal reissued the soundtrack album to coincide with the release of the 25th-anniversary DVD, featuring the entire 51 minutes of the original score, and Varèse Sarabande put out a rerecording of the score performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Joel McNeely. Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" is the most notable artistic antecedent to ""Jaws"". The character of Quint strongly resembles Captain Ahab, the obsessed captain of the ""Pequod"" who devotes his life to hunting a sperm"
"would relax a bit, and the scare would be that much more effective. Because the killer, Mrs. Voorhees, appears onscreen only during the final scenes of the film, Manfredini had the job of creating a score that would represent the killer in her absence. Manfredini borrows from the 1975 film ""Jaws"", where the shark is likewise not seen for the majority of the film but the motif created by John Williams cued the audience to the shark's invisible menace. Sean S. Cunningham sought a chorus, but the budget would not allow it. While listening to a Krzysztof Penderecki piece of"
"for his work on the first film. The shark theme is used in all three sequels, a continuity that Williams compares to ""the great tradition"" for repeating musical themes in Hollywood serials such as Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger. Alan Parker composed and conducted the score for ""Jaws 3-D"", while the final film was scored by Michael Small. The latter was particularly praised for his work, which many critics considered superior to the film. ""Jaws"" was the first film to use ""wide release"" as a distribution pattern. As such, it is an important film in the history of film"
"Calvin Jones (composer) Calvin P. Jones (born May 3, 1966) is an American musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and pianist. He composed the hit song ""Whitewater Chopped Sticks"" popular in talent shows, recitals and pageants. ""Whitewater Chopped Sticks"" was edited by Jones and performed by Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan to win the 2011 Miss America Pageant with over 14 million viewers watching on ABC TV. Jones has composed music for many soundtracks, including the hit documentary """". Produced by Gerald R. Molen (""Schindler's List"", ""Jurassic Park""), ""2016"" was a major theatrical release, grossing over $33.45 million at the box office,"
"Music, studying under Robert Marsteller. He received a bachelor's degree in music in 1956. He played on his first film in 1958, the score for ""Al Capone"". He went on to become Hollywood's ""first-call"" tuba player, playing for television commercials and television series, such as ""The Flintstones"". In addition to ""Jaws"", his films included, ""The Godfather"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the ""Star Trek"" film series, ""The Lion King"", ""Titanic"", ""The Thin Red Line"" (1998 remake), ""The Matrix"", ""Cats & Dogs"", ""Forrest Gump"", ""Air Force One"", ""Back to the Future"", ""A Bug's Life"" and ""Lethal Weapon"". The ""Jaws"" solo was written"
"to music and the movies. In keeping with the theme of the evening, numerous film scores from various motion pictures were played intermittently throughout the ceremony; most notable was John Williams' theme music from ""Jaws"", which was used to goad winners off the stage if their acceptance speeches were overly long. In a departure from having the orchestra perform in the same theatre, composer Williams Ross conducted the orchestra from a studio inside the Capitol Records Building a mile away. Several other people were involved with the telecast and its promotion. Tony Award-winning art director Derek McLane designed a new"
"person or a cane). Later, Kiel used a scooter or wheelchair. On September 10, 2014, three days short of his 75th birthday, Kiel died at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, California, of a heart attack, possibly caused by coronary artery disease. Richard Kiel Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was a tall American actor and voice artist, best known for his role as Jaws in the ""James Bond"" franchise, portraying the character in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) and ""Moonraker"" (1979); he lampooned the role with a tongue-in-cheek cameo in ""Inspector Gadget"" (1999). His"
"Jaws (James Bond) Jaws is a fictional character in the ""James Bond"" films ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" and ""Moonraker"", played in both films by Richard Kiel. Jaws is one of the most popular ""James Bond"" henchmen and a recurring character in the ""James Bond"" video games. He is a highly skilled killer relying on his brute strength and steel teeth to quickly dispatch his victims. The character was inspired by Ian Fleming's description of a hoodlum named Sol ""Horror"" Horowitz in his novel ""The Spy Who Loved Me"". When Horror speaks, he reveals steel-capped teeth. The initial script of"
"Spielberg and Schrader experienced creative differences, hiring John Hill to rewrite. At one point the main character was a police officer. Spielberg ""[found] it hard to identify with men in uniform. I wanted to have Mr. Everyday Regular Fella."" Spielberg rejected the Schrader/Hill script during post-production on ""Jaws"", reflecting that ""they wanted to make it like a James Bond adventure"". David Giler performed a rewrite; Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, friends of Spielberg, suggested the plot device of a kidnapped child. Spielberg then began to write the script. The song ""When You Wish upon a Star"" from ""Pinocchio"" influenced Spielberg's"